hi all.

i have recently purchased external enclosures for my hard drives and it seems that now i am using the hard drives in said enclosures all my FLAC files are corrupted. they do not pass the flac frontend tests and are now missing frames and have gained artifacts that were not present previously. they also are no longer playable in foobar.

this is a list of errors i recieve in FLAC frotnend test
0:FLAC_STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_LOST_SYNC
2:FLAC_STREAM_DECODER_ERROR_STATUS_FRAME_CRC_MISMATCH
ERROR while decoding data state = FLAC_STREAM_DECODER__SEARCH_FOR_FRAME_SYNC

it is only FLAC files that are affected which is extremely strange.

does anybody know what the problem might be?


cheers, marty.

i am also getting this messages...

read near the end of this thread:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....30673&st=25

I have a similar problem. I regularly backed up my entire media conputer hd, includding my flac library, to an external usb hard drive. When my hd failed I restored my files to a new hd, only to find that the flac files (only) are corrupted. All other files have been restored correctly, operating system,etc. The exact size of each corrupted flac file is correct (compared to new readable flac files freshly ripped from the same source) but generate sync errors and are not readable by meedio or flac.exe. I SINCERELY hope there is some way I can restore these 100 gb of files without re-ripping all. Please help! Thanks, John

How come the operating system didn't notify you about unreadable sectors?

There are som really poor USB/PATA intefaces. Try to refund your product.
I tested many external USB HDD (both PATA and SATA) and 1 out of 3 were producing some errors when I checked files with md5summer. But there were no bad sector alert by OS.
This is why now that I found some good hardware, I stick to the same brand to be sure (cooler master).

For testing an external USB HDD box I used to MD5 hash check many big files like DVD rips.